The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Define: The racket stopped, and the wave sucked back.

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The racket stopped, and the wave sucked back.

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This relates to when Sherburn steps out onto his din roof with his shogun. The mob of people did not expect this and recoils. Twain uses sea imagery to describe the wave of the mob moving back at the sight of Sherburn with his gun.

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